Is there a way to check if a service is already enabled on a linux machine?

[yaakov....@sparkpost.com]

I don't see a way to do it with service_facts, do I have to use shell magic?

[Brian Coca]

You can use the appropriate service module:

- service: name=myservice enabled=yes
check_mode: true
register: isit

- fail: msg=its not enabled
when: isit is changed





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Brian Coca

[yaakov....@sparkpost.com]

Awesome! Thanks!

YK

[Adam Miller]

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 7:52 AM yaakov.kuperman via Ansible Project
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> Awesome! Thanks!

As an option, you can also use the service_facts module to inspect
service state: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/service_facts_module.html#service-facts-module

-AdamM

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[Pavel Cahyna]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 08:14:15AM -0500, Adam Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 7:52 AM yaakov.kuperman via Ansible Project
> <ansible...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> >
> > Awesome! Thanks!
>
> As an option, you can also use the service_facts module to inspect
> service state: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/service_facts_module.html#service-facts-module

You can not, because the facts do not tell whether a service is enabled
or disabled.

P.

>
> -AdamM
>
> >
> > YK
> > On Thursday, August 2, 2018 at 6:04:12 PM UTC-4, Brian Coca wrote:
> >>
> >> You can use the appropriate service module:
> >>
> >> - service: name=myservice enabled=yes
> >> check_mode: true
> >> register: isit
> >>
> >> - fail: msg=its not enabled
> >> when: isit is changed
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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[yaakov....@sparkpost.com]

I was actually thinking of trying to change that, but I'm short on time.  Should I log a ticket or is that out of scope for the module?

I was also thinking about making it possible for service_facts to operate only on a single service, in order to save time on data collection. Same question - should I log something for that or is it out of scope?

[Adam Miller]

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 8:29 AM yaakov.kuperman via Ansible Project
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> I was actually thinking of trying to change that, but I'm short on time. Should I log a ticket or is that out of scope for the module?
>
> I was also thinking about making it possible for service_facts to operate only on a single service, in order to save time on data collection. Same question - should I log something for that or is it out of scope?

Please file an issue ticket, that's something the module should
probably be providing. I actually thought it did (which I'm apparently
mistaken on).

-AdamM

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[yaakov....@sparkpost.com]

done, for both:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43641

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43642